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FUTURAMA CAPSULE
[3ACV16] - A Leela of Her Own
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Written by Patric M. Verrone
Directed by Swinton Scott
Originally aired 04/07/02 as episode number 10 in season 04
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> Synopsis
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When Leela is signed to the New New York Mets, she is thrilled to be
the first female major league blernsball player. Drawing huge crowds at
the games, Leela believes she is an inspirational role model to all
women. What she doesnt realize is, she has such a following because she
is the worst blernsball player to ever play the game.
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> Title sequence
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Opening theme promotion:
SCRATCH HERE TO REVEAL PRIZE
Opening theme cartoon:
unknown
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> Voice Credits
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+ Starring
- Billy West (Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Zoidberg)
- Katey Sagal (Leela)
- John DiMaggio (Bender)
- Tress MacNeille
+ Guest Starring
- Hank Aaron
- Bob Uecker
- David herman
- Phil LaMarr
- Lauren Tom
- Dawnn Lewis
- Tom Kenny
+ Also Starring
- Maurice LaMarche
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> Did You Notice...
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... The Mets uniforms in 3002 were a throw-back to Mets uniforms in the
1980's. {N}
... That the first team that the Mets faced was the Swedish Meatballs
{MN}
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> External references
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+ A League of Their Own (Movie)
- The title of the episode. Also the story is somewhat parallel.
{MN*}
+ Baseball Hall of Fame (Museum in Cooperstown, NY)
- Blernsball Hall of Fame {MN*}
+ Calgon Laundry Detergent (product comercial)
- When Fishy Joe asks what the secret of the good tasting pizza is,
the Cygnoid says it's an ancient Cygnoid secret, to which the
female Cygnoid responds "My husband, some hotshot. Here's his
ancient Cygnoid secret, live hornets". This is an word-by-word copy
of a classic comercial for Calgon. Just substitute the words
Cygnoid and live hornets for Chinese and Calgon. {MN*}
+ Coca Cola (Commercial)
- The end scene in which Leela throws the towel saying "Hey kid,
catch" is from the 1970's commercial starring Mean Joe Green {B}
+ Sports Illustrated
- The magazine Leela signs for eBay {MW}
+ eBay.com
- Leela signs a magazine for a girl called eBay (little e, big B)
{MW}
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> Previous episode references
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+ [1ACV05] Fear of a Bot Planet
- Our first look at blernsball, and we learn that Leela is a big
blernsball-fan. {MN*}
+ [2ACV08] Raging Bender
- The manager of the Ultimate Fighting League is now the owner of the
NNY Mets. {MN*}
+ [2ACV15] The Problem with Popplers
- Fishy Joe who bought the licence to sell popplers also buys the
pizza business {MW}
+ [2ACV16] Anthology of Interest 1
- We see Shea Stadium, home of the NNY Mets. {MN*}
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> Freeze frame fun
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Family Bros. Pizza
YOU'VE TRIED
THE REST, NOW
WE'RE OPEN!
TOPPINGS
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-SILT
-ASBESTOS
-FLAMING
MAGNESIUM
-STUCCO
-SCARAB
-GUANO
THE 3002 METS
BLERNSBALL THE WAY
IT OUGHTN'T BE
In the NNY METS Locker Room:
BLACK
BAR
GENERATOR
LEELA AUTOGRAP SESSION
---BRING MONEY---
Sports Illustrated Cover:
LEELA'S BEANS
The Met's
Magical
Fruit
BLERNSBALL HALL OF FAME
Blernsball Fever
Contract It!
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> Animation, continuity, and other goofs
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... All the whole numbers have been retired, Leela says, yet the
manager still wears #4 {GO}
... The Cygnoids say "and put up clotheslines to hang up clothes
everywhere" while the closed caption titles read "and to buy
weapons to send to the terrorists back home". Someone probably
forgot to redo the closed captions after the September attacks on
the WTC. {K}
... Leela pitched 70-some innings, yet never got an out. These are
mutually exclusive at least in Baseball: In order to get credit for
one-third of an inning, you must make 1 out. To get the whole
inning, you must get 3 people out. Thus, Leela's actual stats would
say she's officially pitched 0.0 innings. {m}
... At the end of the episode, when Leela leaves the field (in the
tunnel). As the screen shift from Leela, to Jackie and back (a few
times), Leela's black make up line under her eye keeps disapearing
and coming back. {D}
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> Comments and other observations
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... The Mets haven't won the World Series (in either Blernsball or
Baseball) according to "Anthology of Interest I", so you have to
wonder what made the guy give up Ultimate Robot Fighting League for
this team. {MN*}
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> Contributors
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{B} Blahness {D} Dapper
{GO} Greg On {K} Kryten
{MN} Magnus Nordlander {MN*} Michael Nissen
{MW} Marc Wichterich {N} NiX
{m} mtvcdm
Original Capsule Author: CGEF
Document created on 08/03/2015 at 00:27:42 CET
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